Alexandra Daw

“Was it more obscene to say it, to write it, or to set it in type? On the breath it could taken by a breeze or crowded out by chatter; it could be misheard or ignored. On the page it was a real thing. It had been caught and pinned to a board, its letters spread in a particular way so that anyone who saw it would know what it was.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“I missed them. It was as if they had written a play and constructed the set, and whenever I was with them I ha a part to perform. I fell into it so easily: a secondary character, someone ordinary against whom the leads could shine. Now that they had packed up and left I felt I had forgotten my lines." p. 174”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“It is context...that gives meaning.

[Harry Nicholl]”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“At times he felt he was living his very largest life, as though his soul were billowing before him like a huge and rippling sail.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything